DeSantis calls Trump supporters ‘listless vessels,’ drawing rebuke • Florida lawmakers urge NOAA to enhance coral rescue efforts
 Orlando Morning Report Sunday, August 20, 2023 | | |
| | | | Tropics update | DeSantis vs. Trump | NOAA Good morning. It's Sunday, Aug. 20, 2023. The weather today calls for showers and parly cloudly skies with a high of 91 and a low of 78. Click here for more weather. | | | | The bubble finally burst on the spate of National Hurricane Center investigations popping up in the Atlantic with the formation of a tropical depression while four more systems continue to be tracked by Sunday morning. | | | | | "If all we are is listless vessels that are just supposed to follow, you know, whatever happens to come down the pike on Truth Social every morning, that's not going to be a durable movement," DeSantis said in a taped interview with the conservative website The Florida Standard. | | | | | A bipartisan group of Florida lawmakers has written a letter to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration urging the agency to use its emergency powers to support the rescue and protection of corals threatened by the current marine heat wave. Corals in the state suffered bleaching due to high water temperatures. | | | | | Among the candidates expected on stage, the Republican presidential candidates debate has the greatest potential upside — and peril — for Gov. Ron DeSantis, who hopes to regain the mantle he once held as the non-Donald Trump candidate with the greatest chance to win the Republican nomination. | | | | | American Airlines is trying to crack down on a travel hack. This week, American sued a website that sells tickets that let people save money by exploiting a quirk in airline pricing. Consumers book a flight with at least one stop, then get off the plane during the layover and skip the second leg of the flight. Sometimes it's cheaper than a direct flight between two cities. In the lawsuit, American accuses travel website Skiplagged of tricking consumers and reselling American tickets without the airline's approval. | | | | | Christopher Worrell, 52, of Naples was supposed to be sentenced Friday after being found guilty of spraying pepper spray gel on police officers, as part of the mob storming the Capitol as Congress was certifying Joe Biden's presidential victory on Jan. 6, 2021. | | | A southwest Florida mother and daughter hired to care for an elderly person have been sentenced to federal prison for stealing more than a half-million dollars from their former patient. Court records show that 58-year-old Diane Durbon was sentenced to 10 years on Thursday in Fort Myers federal court. Her daughter and co-defendant, Brittany Lukasik, received two years. The court also ordered Durbon and Lukasik to forfeit their Cape Coral residence, two vehicles and more than $542,000, which are traceable to proceeds of the crime. Both women pleaded guilty in March to conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Lukasik also pleaded guilty to filing a false tax return. | | | | | I was 15 years old when I wrote my first — and only — letter to the editor. The trigger for my burst of righteous teenage indignation: An Oct. 26, 1981 column by the Sentinel Star's longtime political columnist Charley Reese titled "Leave Nancy alone." In it, he defended the First Lady's decision to purchase […] | | | | | Plus: A reader blasts Amy for 'poisonous' advice. | | | | | The Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board consists of Opinion Editor Krys Fluker, Editor-in-Chief Julie Anderson and Viewpoints Editor Jay Reddick. Contact us at insight@orlandosentinel.com | | | |
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